Complaining Shia Arabs not loyal enough to you, but you may miss something important——after Khomeini passed away and Khamenai became the supreme leader, Iran had lost its religious superiority, which means the so-called AoR is unstable——once Iran runs out of money, AoR will break up.
This is false, for the following reasons:
1. Powerful militia forces in the AoR aren't being held up by Iranian money- that is a false conclusion. These militias are run primarily on religious and political determination and confidence..which also expresses itself via military means and actions.
2.AoR militias can run on little Iranian money- they may have to shrink in size or reduce operations to make up for less funds from Iran, but they are already setup to fight for at least 1-2 years on their own without any Iranian support, especially after Iran provided these groups with local "trained trainers" and localized methods and equipment for weapons production.
3. AoR militia groups operate heavily based on support from locals- in the political, economic and religious spheres, the AoR usually blends with the local population (mayber not always), and this facilitates their operations and movement and freedoms to do these things.
Another inappropriate example, ISIS. Jihadists groups from Negiria to Afghanistan pledged loyalty to Al-Bagdadi and announced to be a province of ISIS, without getting too much money from it.
Offcourse ISIS members get money from outside the regions they operate, especially from US, KSA, Qatar, Turkey, UAE, UK, at least 20-40% of EU , and not little money- decent international standard mercenary salaries....plus apparently new and western weapons and military vehicles.
Khomeini might have such influence, but Khamenei mustn’t.
In terms of religous authority and knowledge, Khomeini over Khameini, we all know this- the latter is noticeably less religously knowledgable and achieved than the former.
But when it comes to managing Iran politically, militarily and economically, i have to give Khameini a strong certification- he has really gotten Iran through ALOT while keeping the country safe, prosperous and peaceful, while still being at its strongest militarily since the revolution, while being under sanctions. Iran leads in drone and mobile warfare, so the Ukraine war was the world's wake up call that drone,air defense and mobile warfare are here and the main way war will be fought- that basically puts Iran as one of the few top nations militarily that is advanced in all 3 aspects (drones, air defense and mobile warfare/fighting doctrines).
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